On Friday January 15, 2011, Duje Draganja
, one of the best Croatian
swimmers of all times and until recently world record holder on 50m free
came to Belgrade (SRB). Duje is also one of the best swimmers in the world
with dozens of won trophies and medals in the past 10 years. Prof. Nikola
Papak, President of the swimming club Dubrava (CRO) and a well known
coach Goran Kezman arrived together with Draganja to the Serbian
capital. They were hosted by Milan Misljenovic, the owner of the
MM Electron Comp., for a two day testing in order to analyze the start
and the underwater stroke and introducing the wide practicabillity of the
sophisticated telemetric equipment, completely developed by Mr. Misljenovic.

In the essence, for the past several
years, Mr. Misljenovic is successfully using and developing sensor acquisition
and software analyzing technology especially dedicated to the high level
preparations of the athletes. All of the information gathered is available
in the real time. The first recordings at the Obrenovac swim pool overwhelmed
the prospects and experience for Duje, which enabled further cooperation
in the near future. It was arranged that Mr. Misljenovic would assist Duje’s
coaching team for the upcoming preparations of the national team in the
town of Rijeka (CRO). Furthermore, several top swimmers from other countries
will also join Duje and his team in Rijeka for additional technological
testing. Interestingly enough, some swimmers will be direct concurrence
for Duje at the upcoming Olympic Games in London 2012. As the official
representative of the Croatian swimming federation, Goran Kezman will highly
recommend this kind of monitoring to establish long-term cooperation with
the MM Electron Company for further testing of other Croatian team members.

A day after, at the Vracar swim
complex in Belgrade, a promotional swim practice was held in front of the
eminent guests from the Serbian swimming. Coach Kezman patiently answered
to all the questions from his Serbian colleagues. The biggest attention
was focused towards possible comparative advantage of the tested technology
in Obrenovac and the one from Holland and USA which he already used before.
Sport director of the Serbian Olympic Committee Prof. Dr. Branislav
Jevtic and Serbian junior coach Vladimir Ristic discussed about
all the possibilities regarding cooperation with Serbian national swimmers,
especially with Caba Siladji considering his start and flip turn where
he lacks the most. Prof. Slavko Kurbanovic explained to the auditorium
that there are obvious advantages of renting this technology and service
instead of buying the gadgets which will expire in the following years.
Member of the Expert Group of the Serbian swimming Federation and a Head
Coach of the Partizan swimming club Prof. Mateja Koprivica underlined
that his club is completely open for all the required testing at the Tasmajdan
swimming complex. Director of the regional sport office of Vojvodina Dr.
Nenad Sudarov, was asking about all the possibilities for a long time
collaboration in other areas of sport.

D.Draganja and Elvira Misljenovic,prof
- coordinator of the project and MME manager

At the end of the promotional
swim practice, Coach Kezman talked about advantages of using highly sophisticated
technology for coaching of the top athletes where the real-time monitoring
of complex information also the immediate feedback for the swimmer and
coach are of highest interests for reaching top level and high standards.
All guests at the Vracar swim complex agreed upon following cooperation
which will affect a higher interest of Serbian coaches as well as swimmers.
Furthermore, it is expected that the national team will be able to use
this technology as well in their training process.